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Subject: Re: Technically true, but... Author: An Observer [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 14:06:51 04/17/26 Fri In reply to: Go Green 's message, "Technically true, but..." on 05:46:28 04/16/26 Thu Fair point. Columbia's opponents were almost by definition in the "first 31 out." So the Lionesses were playing what amounted to Dayton-level contests against some teams which just missed an #11 seed play-in game and others which might have been headed for a #12 or #13 seed. So they were competitive opponents but not, say, the #8 seed that Princeton faced out of the Big XII. The S-curve in women's college basketball is a lot steeper than in men's. The same four teams reached this year's Final Four as last season's. The best teams are an order of magnitude better than the merely good. They really do re-load. This as opposed to, say, the Michigan men's team, which has to buy all its players brand new every season. Indeed, one could make an argument that the best Ivy performance of the last several years was the Tigers hanging with this year's national champion UCLA at Pauley Pavilion in the last season of the Kaitlyn Chen era when Lauren Betts was already there as a sophomore transfer from Stanford. That's how much better UConn, UCLA and South Carolina are than the rest of the pack. Princeton led inside the last minute and Chen missed a potential game-tying three-pointer at the buzzer in a 77-74 loss. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]